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Wyoming, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Wyoming City. It lies in ZIP code area 49519. The Survey maps it on the Grand Rapids West quadrangle. 76,501 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Wyoming within Kent County

On record in Wyoming

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Wyoming grew from 72,125 to 76,501 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201072,125
202076,501+4,376 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

118 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Wyoming between 2012 and 2020, burning about 125 acres in total. 12 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Natural12
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194678 - 2019
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND RAPIDS FD 0016378 - 2019
29 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND RAPIDS FD 0016868 - 2018
25 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND RAPIDS FD 0016660 - 2018
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194896 - 2019
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194763 - 2019
8 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRANDVILLE FD 1256 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194072 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Wyoming: 8 producers, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine #1Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine #2Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine #3Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Grand Rapids MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Butterworth Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Byron SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Devries PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gillisse Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Rapids Gravel Co. Plant No.20Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Rapids Plant No. 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wyoming in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Thunderstorm WindWyoming1 killed, 1 hurt, $50,000Gusty thunderstorm winds flattened a house under construction in Wyoming in Kent County, causing one fatality and injuring another person. A 70 mile per hour wind gust was recorded in Grandville. Numerous trees were downed across the county. A 75 mile per hour wind gust was recorded in Grand Rapids.
May 2000HailWyoming$50,000no account filed
May 2004HailWyoming$10,000Trained spotters in Wyoming reported one inch diameter hail.
September 2005HailWyoming$5,000Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported in Wyoming.
September 1997HailWyoming-The National Weather Service Office in Grand Rapids received several reports of hail to 1 1/2" in diameter in and around the city of Wyoming. Reports came from the intersections of 36th Street and Burlingame Avenue SW, 44th Street and Clyde Park Avenue SW, and along the Grandville/Wyoming city limits border.

Every storm recorded in Kent County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Grandville3.1 miles11
Grand Rapids4.0 miles17
Kentwood4.4 miles15
North Byron4.9 miles15
East Grand Rapids5.4 miles16
Cutlerville5.5 miles15
Standale5.6 miles11
Carlisle6.1 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on WyomingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1022953The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1616863. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.